PROSCRIBE


Meaning of PROSCRIBE in English

verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Many Shiite clergymen maintain that birth control is proscribed by Islam.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Even the space inside the narrow arenas is narrowly proscribed, especially for singers.

It prescribes and proscribes the behavior and even the thoughts of its population in virtually every domain of existence.

It should be remembered, however, that Gaelic was proscribed by the authorities for many years.

Political parties Following a 1973 ban on political activity, political parties were constitutionally proscribed in 1978.

She therefore proscribed all religious, philosophical, or psychological books for village libraries.

Ten groups in all were now specifically proscribed in Northern Ireland.

The reasons for the ban were multiple, and certainly there are other pesticides today that should also be proscribed.

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